Posted on 12/24/2010 3:33:40 AM PST by Scanian
'Down with the Despot!"
That's the slogan chanted in the last few days by thousands of Iranian industrial workers and miners. Reports from more than 30 cities across Iran indicate a nationwide protest movement with a mix of economic and political demands that could threaten the Khomeinist regime.
On Wednesday, a delegation of workers gathered in front of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's office in Tehran to demand "an urgent meeting" to discuss "an explosive situation." The standoff with security agents ended when a presidential aide informed the protestors that Ahmadinejad had flown to Istanbul for a regional summit.
A few miles away, workers seeking the formation of independent trade unions gathered in front of the Islamic Majlis, Iran's ersatz parliament, to protest against the government's decision to raise the minimum wage by 6 percent. With the official inflation rate at 11 percent, the workers claim that they face a real reduction in their income.
Also in Tehran, transport workers demonstrated in front of the dreaded Evin Prison to demand the immediate release of their leaders, including Mansour Osanloo and Reza Shahabi. Osanloo, serving a five-year sentence, is in the prison hospital. Shahabi has just ended a 60-day hunger strike protesting his "illegal arrest."
In Qazvin, a major industrial center, striking workers have shut pharmaceutical, textile and ceramic factories. Some textile workers are maintaining a vigil in front of the local governor's office: They haven't received their wages for the last 11 months from a government-owned company.
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You can screw with college kids, but don’t mess with the people of labor! Likely the next move will be to print money and quite the mobs, but that’s a recipe for inflation at best.
There seems to be similarities in Islam and Communism.
Delicious irony. The birthplace of radical Islam may yet be the wellspring of its reformation.
It’s not clear where this will go but one thing is for certain...
The Obomba Regime will not support the people of Iran, and will do nothing to help them.
List 5. List 3
Islam is very anti communist
Why then did they hook up with the National Socialists in WW2?
Actually, they hooked up with America. We had bases in Saudi
Arabia and Iran
Based California's history, if we can wait two or three more generations, the pension cost alone should be enough to bring down Iran.
Have you ever heard of the Muslim Brotherhood?
Maybe we could send Trumka and Stern over there to move the process along.
Plus whoever is heading up the UAW these days. A whole lot more need for “organizers” in Iran than in Southern states with auto plants.
A WHOLE lot in the sense of totalitarianism.
Both systems want to control every aspect of our lives.
There is nothing good about Islam. Anti communist? Get real. Islam has no ideals. Just doesn’t want any challenges.
ping
Quoted from Christianactionforisrael.org/ the Arab/Muslim Nazi Connection:
The Führer’s Mufti: After World War I, the Great Powers of Europe jockeyed for influence in the Middle East’s oil fields and trade routes, with France and Britain holding mandates throughout most of the region. In the 1930s, the fascist regimes that arose in Italy and Germany sought greater stakes in the area, and began courting Arab leaders to revolt against their British and French custodians. Among their many willing accomplices was Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin el-Husseini, who fled Palestine after agitating against the British during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39. He found refuge in Iraq – another of Her Majesty’s mandates – where he again topped the British most wanted list after helping pull the strings behind the Iraqi coup of 1941. The revolt in Baghdad was orchestrated by Hitler as part of a strategy to squeeze the region between the pincers of Rommel’s troops in North Africa, German forces in the Caucuses and pro-Nazi forces in Iraq. However, in June 1941 British troops put down the rebellion and the Mufti escaped via Tehran to Italy and eventually to Berlin.
Once in Berlin, the Mufti received an enthusiastic reception by the “Islamische Zentralinstitut” and the whole Islamic community of Germany, which welcomed him as the “Führer of the Arabic world.” In an introductory speech, he called the Jews the “most fierce enemies of the Muslims” and an “ever corruptive element” in the world. Husseini soon became an honored guest of the Nazi leadership and met on several occasions with Hitler. He personally lobbied the Führer against the plan to let Jews leave Hungary, fearing they would immigrate to Palestine. He also strongly intervened when Adolf Eichman tried to cut a deal with the British government to exchange German POWs for 5000 Jewish children who also could have fled to Palestine. The Mufti’s protests with the SS were successful, as the children were sent to death camps in Poland instead. One German officer noted in his journals that the Mufti would liked to have seen the Jews “preferably all killed.” On a visit to Auschwitz, he reportedly admonished the guards running the gas chambers to work more diligently.
So what? He is but one of many. You make me sick hunting up near truth propaganda. That is the liberal way
In Iran, you cannot have a rebellion against the mullahs that is not also a rebellion against Islam itself.
Ahh. You have exposed yourself, troll.
bert had been freeping longer than you! Go suck on a lemon. You need something to sweeten your disposition, dolt.
since ‘94?
Watch who you are name calling. Accusing me of abuse of facts and etc is not something I take lightly. If it walks like a duck doesn’t matter how long it has been in the pond, it is still a duck.
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